JFlah's Blunders

James McAvoy - cf Victor Frankenstein - sketch 2018 You can tell I didn't take as much time with this portrait as I did with the one of Baker... You can tell what I was going for and that I didn't quite get there. Boy! I need practice.

Simon Baker - cf. The Mentalist - brown pencil on paper - 2018

It's funny how people think differently about things - here are basic ideas I offered for this week's sermon title slide: And here's what Pastor countered with from a google image search: I loved the idea of the hand reaching out from the pile of wadded papers with a help sign - and he wasn't opposed to it, so I was off. This is the first time I've been bold enough to ask for someone to help me with source pictures. Pastor did a great job and sent me come pictures but they weren't quite what I wanted so I took a few too. Pastor and my boss were hand models - used the sleeve from pastor's pics and the hand from my boss's pics, replaced the paper with a picture I took of some crumpled paper, took pics of wadded up paper, worked on shadows and balances and other such and ended up with this:   That awesome "help" font is Befn - don't remember now where I got it - might've been one of those stellar Mon...

The house is nearly recovered from the flood. Between all of the overtime I've been putting in and staying with family, I've not had as much time since August to work on it as I'd have liked, but I've had some help and finally had a break in my schedule where I could spend some time to wash everything up and finish the walls. Everything is looking good. I've sanded the last bit of drywall mud and caulked the molding and finished painting. Now I've got to finish up all the washing/floors/dusting/cleaning/moving back in stuff. There's still a mountain of work, but I'm super thankful that God's given me parents who are willing to and able to help me (and who didn't mind me staying at their house for weeks while I got things sorted). Thank God for great family! And for how He's given me such great church family! FBCZ has loved on me during this and I can't imagine being any where else. They work me hard in the office - there's a st...

Here's the nativity sketch - sketched elements separately, scanned them at a high resolution then compiled them into the scenes. Wish I'd had more time to work on these, but I think I've done ok in the time allotted. I'm glad God's given me a place to work that will allow me to do creative things like this even though I still feel a little funny about being found sketching when the boss shows up at the door and says 'what cha' doin?'

Alistair Begg of Truth for Life has a sermon series that inspired this one. I highly recommend listening to those - many of his messages have meat in them you may not always get enough of on Sundays. Another plus is that all of his sermon audio files are free for download.

Ok, so the ladies' ministry wants a tshirt design and I was wondering if I might could do some typography/calligraphy for the back - this is their verse: Mark 12:30 Used this one as inspiration: And ended up with this: Here's the final photoshopped on top of some stock paper. Has some successful bits and some not so great bits and isn't particularly pretty... I've still got a lot to learn, but am enjoying the process

I'm so terrible at this! Not sure I'm getting any better - actually, I think the attempts are getting worse, but I sure am enjoying myself so I'll probably continue creating these wonderful/terrible little scraps. Didn't plan them out, and used an ink pen, so... yeah, no do-overs here. Might start using pencil to plan the page out a bit better. It's hard to determine where the curly bits go - that and I obviously need to take a look at some reference material. I mean, do I even know what a capital "S" looks like? Attempt number one... was looking at something from here earlier in the day that obviously inspired this. Attempt number 2 Last attempt... looked ok till "stands"... lots of room for improvement here, huh?

Sketched this while listening to an audio book. Isn't nearly as nice as Vanessa Lemen's original but I enjoyed myself.